MDKSA-2003:094

Problembeschreibung

A buffer overflow was discovered in MySQL that could be executed by any
user with "ALTER TABLE" privileges on the "mysql" database. If
successfully exploited, the attacker could execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user running the mysqld process (mysqld). The
"mysql" database is used by MySQL for internal record keeping and by
default only the "root" user, or MySQL administrative account, has
permission to alter its tables.
This vulnerability was corrected in MySQL 4.0.15 and all previous
versions are vulnerable. These packages have been patched to correct
the problem.